On Jul 23, 2014 10:57 PM, "AKASHI Takahiro" takahiro.akashi@linaro.org wrote:
On 07/24/2014 12:54 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
On 07/22/2014 02:14 AM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
Arm64 holds a syscall number in w8(x8) register. Ptrace tracer may change its value either to:
- any valid syscall number to alter a system call, or
- -1 to skip a system call
This patch implements this behavior by reloading that value into syscallno in struct pt_regs after tracehook_report_syscall_entry() or secure_computing(). In case of '-1', a return value of system call can also be changed by the tracer setting the value to x0 register, and so sys_ni_nosyscall() should not be called.
See also: 42309ab4, ARM: 8087/1: ptrace: reload syscall number after secure_computing() check
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S | 2 ++ arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S index 5141e79..de8bdbc 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S @@ -628,6 +628,8 @@ ENDPROC(el0_svc) __sys_trace: mov x0, sp bl syscall_trace_enter
- cmp w0, #-1 // skip syscall?
- b.eq ret_to_user
Does this mean that skipped syscalls will cause exit tracing to be skipped?
Yes. (and I guess yes on arm, too)
If so, then you risk (at least) introducing
a nice user-triggerable OOPS if audit is enabled.
Can you please elaborate this? Since I didn't find any definition of audit's behavior when syscall is rewritten to -1, I thought it is reasonable to skip "exit tracing" of "skipped" syscall. (otherwise, "fake" seems to be more appropriate :)
The audit entry hook will oops if you call it twice in a row without calling the exit hook in between. I can also imagine ptracers getting confused if ptrace entry and exit don't line up.
What happens if user code directly issues syscall ~0? Does the return value register get set? Is the behavior different between traced and untraced syscalls? The current approach seems a bit scary.
--Andy